Called AXE5000, it is built around a A5EC008BM16AE6S, an IC with 85,196 logic elements and, for migration from Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGAs, a 28,880 LUT ‘adaptive logic module’.
CPUs include a 1.4GHz dual core Arm Cortex-A76, and a dual core 1.25GHz Cortex-A55.
3Top/s of DSP performance is available from 232 18×19 multipliers.
“Agilex 5 is the industry’s first FPGA to integrate AI capabilities through the adoption of tensor blocks within its enhanced DSP block,” said Arrow.
Memories include 229 M20K (20kbit) units (4.5Mbit) and 1,780 MLAB (32x20bit) units (total 1Mbit).
This member of the family supports DDR4 external memory, but not DDR5.
16Mbyte of ram is provided on the board, along with 32Mbyte of QSPI flash programme memory.
Its on-board transceivers support 4x 17.16Gbit/s NRZ communication, up to 4x PCIe 4.0 and a 10Gbit/s Ethernet channel. The board has an LVDS/MIPI display interface.
“With the CRUVI HS connector and Arduino MKR standard pads, various adapter boards can be connected to this kit, like a 2k camera, video output, memory, ADCs, DACs and sensors,” said Arrow.
The Arduino development environment can be used.
Find the AXE5000 on this Arrow web page
Trenz Electronic is Arrow’s board partner for this starter kit.
Last year, iWave announced system-on-modules built around Agilex 5 E-series FPGAs.
